Creticus not only failed in the task, but plundered the very provinces he was supposed to protect from robbery.
[1] He attacked the Cretans, who had made an alliance with the pirates, but was totally defeated, most of his ships being sunk.
[3] As a result of this defeat he was mockingly given the cognomen Creticus, which means "conqueror of Crete", and also "man made of chalk", when translated from Latin.
Most authorities are agreed as to his avarice and incompetence,[2] but the biographer Plutarch describes him as a friendly, honest and generous man.
[4] Antonius was married to a woman named Numitoria, a daughter of Quintus Numitorius Pullus, but they had no known children.